2001: A Space Odyssey

A masterpiece of the science-fiction genre. Kubrick redefined the boundaries of cinema, expanding them into pure contemplation of humanity’s nature, while setting new horizons for science-fiction films. The film’s timeline stretches from the dawn of humankind to its titular year. On Earth, during the Stone Age, in the presence of a mysterious monolith, early humans use tools as weapons for the first time, marking a crucial step toward intelligence. In 1999, astronauts discover a similar black obelisk on the Moon. In 2001, aboard a spaceship traveling between Jupiter and Earth, the onboard computer makes a fatal error, killing most of the crew and, in an attempt to conceal its mistake, causes further deaths. Beyond time: the sole survivor of the journey to Jupiter transcends into the next stage of human evolution.

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Stanley Kubrick was born in 1928 in New York. He worked as a photographer for the “Look” magazine before he began his adventure with movies. His first pictures were documentaries. He directed his first feature film Fear and Desire in 1953 as an independent producer, which back then was not a common practice. A genius, an author of visually perfect, epic masterpieces, often about the most important matters of human’s nature: Paths of Glory, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey or Barry Lyndon.

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